Title Blue china : single female migration to colonial Australia / Jan Gothard

Published Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2001 ©2001

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Description xiii, 298 pages : illustrations, charts ; 23 cm regular print Contents 1. Emigrating Women -- 2. Manchester Cottons and Bermondsey Boots -- 3. 'A reward for good conduct, not banishment for bad' -- 4. 'A season of industry' -- 5. 'Gliding over the great waves' -- 6. 'No worse than might have been expected' -- 7. A Compromise with Conscience -- 8. 'Free agents these domestic damsels...' Summary Almost a hundred thousand single women emigrated from Britain to the Australian colonies between 1850 and 1900. The popular assumption is that these women went to find husbands, but this text establishes that the female emigration schemes were devised to ease the shortage of domestic servants Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Subject British -- Australia -- History -- 19th century. British -- Australia -- History. Single women -- Australia -- History -- 19th century. Single women -- Australia -- History. Women foreign workers -- Australia -- History. Women foreign workers -- Australia -- History -- 19th century. Women immigrants -- Australia -- History -- 19th century. Women immigrants -- Australia -- History. Working class women -- Australia -- History -- 19th century. Working class women -- Australia -- History. SUBJECT Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114312 -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475 Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114312 LC no. 2001411489 ISBN 052284958X

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